EGYPT'S RISING POWER PLAYER

摘要

AT FIRST GLANCE, Amr Moussa would seem to have scant hope of winning Egypt's upcoming presidential election-the first truly free contest in modern history for that position. There's no shortage of candidates to lead the country, and none of them is more closely identified with the hated dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak than Moussa. He served as Mubarak's foreign minister from 1991 to 2001 and has spent the past decade as head of the Arab League, essentially an association of Mideast autocrats like Mubarak before his ouster early this year.